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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Persia"”.
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Persia Rising: Iran's Nuclear Program
<p>The Islamic Republic of Iran has the political will, knowledge, and capability to develop and build nuclear weapons. The purpose of this thesis is to examine Iran's nuclear program and potential U.S. policy responses to the threat of a nuclear Iran. An examination of Iran's history, strategic …
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Umma and Identity in Early Islamic Persia
… in areas that were historically a part of the Persian Empire. These texts are written in Persian or Arabic or both. Some sources were originally in Arabic and later translated into Persian. The main Persian language local histories that I will address in this dissertation include the Tarikh-i …
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Bunting in Persia: A Post-War Poetics of Simultaneity
BUNTING IN PERSIA argues that Basil Bunting refined his post-war poetics primarily through his translations from Persian, which facilitated the development of what I call his poetics of simultaneity. My first chapter examines Bunting’s early translational praxis by reading his first translation …
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Orientalist representations of Persia in the works of Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, Moore and Morier
… aims at investigating the representations of Persia in a number of canonical and non-canonical texts in English literature. The theoretical framework comes from Edward Said’s analysis of orientalism. It is argued that the case of Persia instances the heterogeneous and striated character of …
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The Land of the Lion and the Sun: British Travel-‐writing on Persia, 1890-‐1940
… and evolution of British travel-writing on Persia from 1890, and argues that as a liminal space with the British geo-political world view, Persia offered an especially fertile ground for travel-writers to record their experiences in a wide variety of forms and styles. Furthermore, European …
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From Paris o Persia: Two Worlds Juxtaposed by the Journey fo the "Morgan Picture Bible"
… Parisian court of Louis IX, traveled to Isfahan, Persia in the early seventeenth century when it was sent as a diplomatic gift to Shah Abbas I. Because of this connection, the Morgan Bible can be considered an unusual tie between two influential rulers and art Patrons, Louis IX (1214-1270) and …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… freedom and tyranny in ancient Greece and Persia by synthesizing ancient Near Eastern scholarship with a new reading of Herodotus's History. I argue, contrary to prevailing scholarly contentions, that Herodotus considered ancient Persia to be a free regime that possessed both external and …
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The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
<p>According to the Syriac <italic>Acts of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> (and related material) set Shapur's persecution within the context of …
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American missionaries in Iran, 1834-1934
… The first of these missionaries went to Persia in 1832 to explore the possibility of establishing a base for the activities of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The work of many others who succeeded him continued until 1934 when government imposed regulations …
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The late Roman frontier in Arabia: A landscape of interaction
… in the face of the imperial margins of Rome and Persia. This zone was then a conduit through which cultures, materials and ideas were exchanged and reformed. Moreover, this zone acted as a bridge for the societies and governments on either side in which the frontier as center held agency. This …
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Pleasure Gardens
… as paradise’ in Zoroastrian beliefs in ancient ‘Persia’.
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The Michael Figure in the Book of Daniel
… in history in relation to the princes of Persia and Greece and his activity at the eschaton are considered. For example, is his function military, judicial, or both?</p> <p>Method. This was an exegetical study of the Michael passages in their historical setting with a comparison also of …
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The East India Company in the Persian Gulf: The View from Bandar Abbas
The Persian Gulf represents a vital, yet unexplored region of the East India Company’s sphere of influence. By considering the Gulf as an important space of interaction between the Company and successive Persian regimes, a new relationship can be revealed. From the Company’s foundational action in …
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The role of imperial decrees in Ezra-Nehemiah : an ideological and exegetical analysis
… analysis of the role of the imperial decrees of Persia in Ezra- Nehemiah (hereafter E-N). The imperial decrees, to date, have not been considered to play any significant role in both the compilation and the interpretation of E-N because they have been analysed, almost exclusively, in terms of …
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Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili: tawhid, transcendence and immanence
… of eighth-ninth/fourteenth-fifteenth centuries Persia, describing the world in which he lived and the influence of theological and philosophical traditions on his writings, both from within and without the Islamic world. A whole chapter is dedicated to the definition of the controversies that …
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Does Grouping for Language Arts Have an Impact on Student Performance?
Educators disagree about the effectiveness of grouping students by reading level for language arts instruction. Ability grouping can allow instruction that is congruent with the students' reading level, as well as encourage group participation. However, homogenous grouping can have negative effects …
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The Shiraz Controversy: Henry Martyn, Crucicentric Conversionism, and Islam 1811–12
While translating the New Testament in Shiraz, Persia, in 1811–12, East India Company chaplain Henry Martyn (1781–1812) also composed three Persian tracts—the Shiraz Controversy—which presented Evangelical Christianity to Muslim scholars. Although contemporary Muslim scholars and the Persian shah …
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